[The Man]

There have been a few different comments made. Some general responses:



What I have noticed over the years of practice (I work for one of the lower 48 states) is that people want services. Those services may be paved roads, electricity, running CLEAN water, police, the army. Yet when it comes to helping pay for those services be it through income taxation, motor vehicle registration and the like, suddenly its like the party is over and everyone wants out before they get stuck with the check. Life, and government, doesn't work that way. If you don't want to pay the taxes then move away from the benefits and you probably wont be bothered.



As far as motor vehicle regulations are concerned, would you prefer a system where all were responsible for their own roads? Where there was nothing to guarantee the safety and/or reliability of the vehicle you purchase? Where people need nothing more than arms and legs in order to plow around at 70 miles an hour in two tons of steel? Where people can time and time again drink themselves almost into a coma and go run down your friends and relatives without any form of repercutions? Regulations not only hinder your freedom, if that's what you want to call paying your fair share of the staggering expenses that your registration fees go towards paying, but also guarantee certain regulations that benefit all of us. In some states that fee is as little as $35 a year, a small price to pay. You don't want to pay it? Don't drive.



As far as conspiracies go, if it makes you feel better to think that people care enough about you as an individual or as a class (mostly white, mildly educated folks) you knock yourself out. Without exception, all of the people and agencies of my state that I have had the pleasure of representing are good, hard working people who are usually paid a fraction of what they are worth in the private sector because they believe in what they do. BE it delivering medical services to the poor, regulating insurance comanies or banks, or making sure your children are safe. Sometimes from you!



The law can be boiled down to a simple axiom: if its not cited its fiction. If you can't say this law and these cases got it wrong and the law needs changing or the law is such that the outcome I desire should be, then you are making it up. Vague statements about some higher form of justice are simply not what our legal system is currently founded on, for better or for worse. It is one thing to be idealistic, it's another thing to repeatedly ram your head on the great friggin wall of China in hope the Chinese people will get your point and leave. You know?



Change in the law is part of the law. Were it not for seminol cases like Brown v. Board of Education, Virgninia v. Loving, and the like we would still be seperate and not near equal racially but even those decision were based on logical extensions of the law and application of the constitution. For the most part, the anti-government legal pro se stuff we see rings closer to pure fantasy and nonsense. If I want the governor to take me seriously I round up voters, put on a suit, and go talk to the guy. Painting myself magenta, putting feathers in my hair, and dancing around shouting a made up language will only get arrested. Most of what you all do is the legal equivalent of the latter not the former. I don't mean to be critical but hey, lets be realistic.



Say what you want about UCC (it only applies in limited cases where the forum state in question has adopted it), the fringe, and Maritime cases from English courts circa 1600, it's not getting you all anywhere. Meantime you are driving on paved roads, calling the cops when Jethro get all liquored up and starts waiving the double barrell around, watching tv, using electricity, and reading this on your computer. All these are paid for in one way or another by the state or federal government. If you think you have found a loophole that excludes you from contributing for the benefits you enjoy, file at will. I will be there to show the court that you spew unsuportable nonsense and you can tell your buddies at Al's Do Drop In what a bastard I am. Takes all kinds.



You be good now.



The Man